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[Spanish] - Bola De Sebo Y Otras Narraciones

"'Bola de sebo', que muchos creen es uno de los mejores cuentos de Maupassant, fue publicado originalmente en una coleccion dirigida por Zola y es un ataque a la moral burguesa que acepta que una mujer se entregue para salvarlos a todos, pero despues por haberse entregado es mirada con desprecio. Igualmente esta 'El collar' con su sorpresivo desenlace y el tierno 'Padre de Simon', ademas de otra serie de cuentos que son testimonio de la grandeza del autor."

Guy De Maupassant (Author), Laura García (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - El Contrabajo Y Otros Cuentos Humoristicos

"'El contrabajo', 'Los banos publicos', 'La dama del perrito', 'Borrachera continua', 'El vengador', 'El marido', 'La suerte femenina'. Anton Chejov, hijo de un tendero fracasado y nieto de un siervo, comenzo a escribir historias humoristicas como medio de sostenerse y continuar sus estudios medicos. En esas historias breves, ya se nota al inmenso dramaturgo naturalista, que profundizo en la psicologia de sus personajes y creo situaciones humanas, que en medio de su aparente ligereza, son de gran profundidad. Cuentos como La dama del perrito, muestran un entendimiento unico de situaciones, que presenta con aparente trivialidad pero que son dibujos maestros de una realidad."

Anton Chekhov (Author), Carlos J. Vega (Narrator)

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Buck Meets the Monster Stick

"Remember the Monster Stick? The greatest-and most dangerous-fishing rod ever? What about Buck, who simply 'ain't no ordinary dog'? Anyone who has seen the Lepp boys perform — or read their book, The Monster Stick — will never forget them. In this recording, we revisit West Virginia with Bil Lepp as he tells some of the stories that made his brother Paul and himself repeat winners of the West Virginia State Liars Contest.Stories ©1999 Bil Lepp and Nancy Lepp, except The Monster Stick's Last Ride, ©2001 Bil Lepp; (P)2002 August House Publishers, Inc."

Bil Lepp (Author), Bil Lepp (Narrator)

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The Decameron

"Here are sixteen tales from one of the great works of the Middle Ages. Ten young people have fled for a while the terrible effects of the Black Death in Florence and, in an idyllic setting, tell a series of brilliant stories, by turns humorous, bawdy, tragic and provocative. This celebration of physical and sexual vitality is Boccaccio's answer to the sublime other-worldliness of Dante's Divine Comedy'."

Giovanni Boccaccio (Author), Various Artists (Narrator)

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Storm: Stories of Survival from Land, Sea and Sky

Jack London, Rick Bass, Sebastian Junger (Author), Gary Telles, Nick Sampson, Rick Foucheux, Terence Aselford (Narrator)

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How We Lost the Moon

"'On the busy, bustling, colonized future Moon, McAuley reminds us that although everyone makes mistakes, some mistakes have far greater consequences than others...' So writes Gardner Dozois, editor of the Seventeenth Annual Collection of The Year's Best Science Fiction, about this thrilling and meticulous sci-fi tale."

Paul J. Mcauley (Author), Kerin McCue (Narrator)

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Exchange Rate

Hal Clement (Author), Kerin McCue (Narrator)

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Mount Olympus

"In this Martian adventure story, two men fly to the highest mountain on Mars, and in the process learn more about Mars and about themselves. Bova's work is premeated by the idea of space as a new frontier, and of SF settings as opportunities for explorers and entrepreneuers, the classic Heinlein thematics of American SF."

Ben Bova (Author), Kerin McCue (Narrator)

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A Hero of the Empire

Robert Silverberg (Author), George Guidall (Narrator)

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Tales of Irish Myths

"Three key stories from the mists of Irish legend retold by Benedict Flynn, with atmospheric music and sound effects. Enter a mysterious world where the line between the fantastical and the real is blurred mortals and immortals live strange entwined lives and nature and high magic exist side by side."

Benedict Flynn (Author), Dermot Kerrigan, Marcella Riordan (Narrator)

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Magic Terror: 7 Tales

"A collection of seven exquisite tales about living, dying, and the horror that lies in between, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Story "Elegant, terrifying, provocative."-The Washington Post Book World Welcome to a new kind of terror as Peter Straub leads us into the outer reaches of the psyche. Here the master of the macabre is at his absolute best in seven chilling stories that explore the darkest depths of the human mind. "Bunny Is Good Bread" takes us into the mind of a small boy trapped in grotesque circumstances to portray the creation of a serial killer in a manner that compels pity, sorrow, comprehension, and grief-as well as judgement. "Hunger, an Introduction," narrated by the ghost of a pompous, self-pitying murderer, evokes a profoundly beautiful vision of earthly life, one appreciated far more by the dead than the living. The award-winning novella "Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff," a masterpiece of black comedy, draws upon Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener" to create a revenge tale in which torture is a moral art and the revenger undergoes a transforming, albeit painful, education. The terrain of these extraordinary stories is marked by brutality, heartbreak, despair, wonder, and an unexpected humor that allows empathy to blossom within the most unlikely contexts."

Peter Straub (Author), Ron McLarty (Narrator)

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